British & Revolution · event 3 of 7

4 August 1735

The Zenger trial. John Peter Zenger, printer of the New-York Weekly Journal, is acquitted of seditious libel after his lawyer argues that truth is a defence. The verdict establishes a principle that becomes central to American press freedom.

The British & Revolution era

  1. 1673
  2. 1712
  3. 4 August 1735
  4. 1754
  5. 27 August 1776
  6. 21 September 1776
  7. 25 November 1783

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